From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "J. Clarke" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: EVIL Matrox Graphics Inc , STEALS MGA Settings/VIRTUAL DESKTOP from Windows 98, 2000 etc Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 01:33:42 -0500 Organization: http://newsguy.com Message-ID: References: <1104728895.143031.21070@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1104737035 20755 80.91.229.6 (3 Jan 2005 07:23:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 07:23:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 03 08:23:46 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ClMZ8-0005KG-00 for ; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 08:23:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1ClMkG-0004YV-PL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2005 02:35:16 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!pln-e!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news3 Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video, comp.sys.intel, comp.lang.c++, gnu.emacs.help, soc.culture.canada Original-Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video Original-Lines: 68 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p-058.newsdawg.com User-Agent: KNode/0.8.0 Hamster-Pg/1.13 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video:509553 comp.sys.intel:219131 comp.lang.c++:808555 gnu.emacs.help:127641 soc.culture.canada:424884 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23108 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23108 rogerclive@rock.com wrote: > Perhaps, there is no bigger sleazy company in the entire Maple Republic > ( Canada ) than Matrox Graphics Inc. > > I paid $100+ through my nose circa 1999 for Matrox Millenium II and > Mystique. > > It works well under NT4.0 however, a month ago I upgraded to Win 98. > Guess what? > > The main feature in the Matrox Inc Video cards was their desktop, and > the essence > was in "MGA Settings" . Here you could make a virtual desktop four > times or more > than your monitor area. then using a touchpad with proper acceleration > you could > pan from one end to the other by a single stroke on your touch pad. It > was extremely > helpful and allowed you to do work on a small cheap monitor or LCD with > the comfort > of a large screen. > > Guess what this evil master-mind did ? In the software for Win 98, Win > 2K and perhaps other versions, it downgraded its desktop in a clearly > identifiable > and treacherous way. It added a whole bunch of non-sequitor bells and > whistles > and robbed its customers of the jewel. The virtual desktop. > > What irritated me most about these crooked and evil canadians is that > they lecture > the whole world about environmentalism and environment. What this > criminally evil > company has done is: It has created pollution worth $150 or so, more > exactly > the cost/selling price of the card for every card that will be thrown > away > and destroyed because they stole away the main module and compiled the > desktop > software without it. > > I have put this analysis over the months. I ask every potential > customer of their > cards to ask this company if they are going to play this > evil-intentioned and > thinly disguised game with all their cards. I urge you to refuse of > bycott their > products ... till they rectify their negative sum business strategy. > > Matrox must have sold atleast 200,000 such cards. We are talking about > 20 million dollars worth of pollution and destruction. > > A deceived Customer > > The Essential question: > Cant this company recompile the old driver software which suppored > virtual desktop or the "MGA Settings" feature (which allowed you to > change the size of view area and displayed area independently) with the > libraries of later microsoft operating systems ? What are you on about? I've got virtual desktop working fine on Windows 98 and Windows 2000. -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)